Louvers, grooves, emissions-suppressing screws, enhanced power delivery lines!
The expectation was for a unit on par volume-wise with the original PlayStation 5 - but we were wrong.
Taking a look at that tiny board also brings back into focus just how efficient the design is.
CPU, GPU and a range of other logic are contained on that single processor.
My favourite industrial design detail comes from the amount of screws attached to the internal metal shield.
Elsewhere, there are similarities in the cooling set-up with the existing PlayStation 5.
These grooves should serve to keep the liquid metal TIM more evenly spread across the chip across the years.
Mark Cerny called it a super-charged PC architecture when introducing PS4 and that philosophy holds true today.
So, what comes next?
And based on the PS5 Pro’s high retail price, how affordable will it be?
At this point, we’re expecting two PlayStation 6-based pieces of hardware.
There’ll be a standard console - naturally - and there are plans for a handheld too.
PS4 introduced us to the AMD APU surrounded by unified memory.
